Mr. Speaker, again, these were not phantom cuts, as the opposition leader and leader of the Liberal Party would have us believe.
Nonetheless, I can quote his member for Markham—Unionville, who promised in 2004 to strike a committee that would find $12 billion in cuts. In February 2005, the hon. member said:
“There's no doubt you can't find $12 billion or even a chunk of it without affecting jobs”.
This government did not cut $12 billion. This government did do some budgetary reductions and did them without cutting any jobs.